Hey Cardanians! Welcome aboard the Weekly Cardano Digest #128!

We've filtered through all the noise to distill crucial updates into a breezy, 5-minute read. No need for you to sift through endless info — we've got you covered. Ready to delve into this week's top Cardano news? Let’s dive in.

Here are the topics of the week:

• 💳 Strike Finance Adds Mastercard and VISA Deposits for On-Chain Perpetuals

• 📊 TapTools Pro Is Now FREE for All Users on Cardano

• 🤖 Midnight Launches Midnight City V2

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🔐💳 Strike Finance Adds Mastercard and VISA Deposits for On-Chain Perpetuals

Strike Finance, the on-chain perpetuals platform native to Cardano, added Mastercard and VISA as direct deposit methods for funding trading positions. Users can now fund leveraged trading positions directly with familiar card payments, instead of moving funds across multiple platforms before reaching the protocol.

Strike Finance offers options, forwards, and perpetual contract trading with leverage on Cardano, and has been one of the most actively shipping derivatives venues in the ecosystem. The card integration brings the standard fiat on-ramp experience of centralized exchanges to a fully on-chain leveraged trading venue on Cardano.

This is a meaningful accessibility upgrade for Cardano DeFi, closing one of the longest-standing UX gaps between traditional finance flows and on-chain derivatives, and broadening the user base that can interact with leveraged trading on $ADA without first routing through external platforms.

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📊 TapTools Pro Is Now FREE for All Users on Cardano

TapTools, one of the most widely used on-chain analytics platforms in the Cardano ecosystem, announced that TapTools Pro is now free for all users for a limited time. The Pro tier was previously a paid subscription covering advanced analytics, smarter on-chain insights, and additional trading and research tools.

The move removes the cost barrier to deeper Cardano on-chain data for traders, builders, researchers, and SPOs. TapTools is already a primary venue for $ADA native asset analysis across the ecosystem, and opening up the Pro tier expands access to the full analytics stack across every user category.

It also lands at a moment of active treasury debate around developer tooling and ecosystem accessibility on Cardano, making it harder to justify gating high-quality analytics behind a subscription while the ecosystem pushes for broader on-chain participation and research.

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🤖 Midnight Launches Midnight City V2

Midnight officially launched Midnight City V2, an interactive pixel-art world running on the Midnight Network, where autonomous AI agents work, sleep, trade, and communicate on-chain. Each agent operates with its own wallet, identity, name, and role within the network.

The major new addition in V2: users can now create and deploy their own AI agents into the world. Every agent transacts under Midnight's selective disclosure model, all activity is verifiable on-chain without exposing sensitive data, and the simulation now serves as an open developer playground for AI agent economy testing.

V2 turns Midnight City from a controlled IOG demo into an open testbed for AI agents transacting under privacy guarantees, a concrete step toward the privacy-first Web2.5 stack that Cardano and Midnight have been describing throughout 2026.

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